Beam dynamics in an integrated plane wave transformer photoinjector at Sand X-band

The beam dynamics of an integrated S-band RF photoinjector based on the plane wave transformer (PWT) concept, proposed as part of an SBIR collaboration between UCLA and DULY Research, are studied. The design, which calls for an 11.5 cell structure run at a peak accelerating field of 60 MV/m and uses a compact solenoid around the initial 2.5 cells, is based on a recently developed theory of emittance compensation. It calls for matching the beam onto a generalized equilibrium envelope, which produces a beam which diminishes in transverse size monotonically with acceleration. This condition minimizes the emittance, which is 1 mm-rad at Q=1 nC. This design is also scaled to produce nearly identical performance at X-band, giving an injector appropriate to running an FEL at the SLAC NLCTA. These designs are insensitive to RF emittance increase, allowing a wide choice of injection phase, and the option to compress the emitted pulse.